It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNo country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
More Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.
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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.
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It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
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The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
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The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
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